HEIRACHY
PL quotes MARRIAGE
Eve GENDER
Adam DECEPTION AND CORRUPTION
Satan REVENGE AND HATRED
God FREE WILL
Son WILDNESS VS CULTIVATION
Sin and Death GOOD VERSUS EVIL
BELL: “there was no fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed”
Section Quote Context Critics THEMES
The “I must now change these notes to tragic” [5] FREE WILL: humans have J.M Evans: “the fall
invocation “her nightly visitation unimplored” [22] the capability NOT to fall humanised Adam and Eve”
“of my celestial patroness who deigns her nightly Felix culpa: it was a happy
visitation unimplored” [21-22] fall because Adam and Eve
“brings it nightly to my ear” [47] can CHOOSE to follow God
Book 1: “justify the ways of
God to man”
Satan "the sun was sunk" [48] EPIC POEM: Milton “Satan is figured as a sleazy DECEPTION AND
introduced "night's hemisphere had veiled the horizon round" [51-52] subverted the epic seducer” CORRUPTION
"Satan involved in rising mist" [75] convention by casting Satan Sean McEvoy GOOD VERSUS EVIL
"The serpent subtlest beast of all the field" [86] as the epic hero.
Sympathetic reading of Percy Shelley: “Milton’s
God after better worse would build? Terrestrial Satan’s character, we find devil is far superior to his
heaven"[102] him heroic due to the God”
"of growth, sense, reason summed up in a man with perspective that comes
delight could I have walked round thee" [113-14] with his character.
MILTON’S authorial intent
"like a black mist low creeping" [180] CREATION: In Paradise Lost, Stella P Revard:
"well stored with subtle wiles" [184] the creation of the world is 'Adam, by permitting Eve to
narrated by Raphael in go forth alone, creates the
"in meditated fraud and malice, bent on man's Book VII, and the creation climate for her to fall'
destruction" [55] stories of man and woman Adam is to fall when his
"The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel are told by Adam and Eve in passion for Eve
Torment within me" [120] Books VIII and IV predominates.'
, "for only in destroying I find ease from my relentless respectively. The
thoughts" [129] relationship of our first
ancestors to the rest of
creation is described in
Book IV of Paradise Lost,
ironically through the eyes
of Satan
"in whose mazy folds" [161] Innocence of marriage pre- Corruption of good: he MARRIAGE
"To hide me and the dark intent I bring, O foul descent!" fall represents the anthesis of
[163] CREATION: God made the the creation
"spite then with spite is best repaid" [178] world, and everything in it,
"envying our happiness" [254] perfect. He created
humanity, male and female,
to look after and develop
the world, living in perfect
harmony with God and the
rest of creation.
Adam and “sacred light began to dawn” [192]
Eve’s unity “from the earth’s great alter send up silent praise” [195]
“joined their vocal worship” [198]
“prime for the sweetest scents and airs” [200]
“for much their work outgrew the hands’ dispatch of two
gardening so wide” [202-203]
Eve Desiring “virgin majesty” [270] Growing division as Eve Arnold Stein: Eve is just GENDER
control "her heavenly form, angelic, but more soft and feminine, longs for control asserting independence MARRIAGE
her graceful innocence" [458-459] Women: façade of beauty:
he wants to highlight the D.K McColley: “Eve is
"let us divide our labours" [214] duplicity of women, their sinlessly concerned with
"how are we happy still in fear of harm" [326] corruption of good efficiency”
"rather double honour gain" [332]
"with thy permission then, and thus forewarned" [378]
Adam’s "daughter of God and man" [291] J.M. Evans: Eve’s motive is GENDER
response "nothing lovelier can be found in woman,” [232] ‘love of her own power’
"go in thy native innocence" [373]
“malicious foe…seeks to work us woe and shame by sly Samuel Johnson: “Multon
PL quotes MARRIAGE
Eve GENDER
Adam DECEPTION AND CORRUPTION
Satan REVENGE AND HATRED
God FREE WILL
Son WILDNESS VS CULTIVATION
Sin and Death GOOD VERSUS EVIL
BELL: “there was no fall, Adam and Eve were always flawed”
Section Quote Context Critics THEMES
The “I must now change these notes to tragic” [5] FREE WILL: humans have J.M Evans: “the fall
invocation “her nightly visitation unimplored” [22] the capability NOT to fall humanised Adam and Eve”
“of my celestial patroness who deigns her nightly Felix culpa: it was a happy
visitation unimplored” [21-22] fall because Adam and Eve
“brings it nightly to my ear” [47] can CHOOSE to follow God
Book 1: “justify the ways of
God to man”
Satan "the sun was sunk" [48] EPIC POEM: Milton “Satan is figured as a sleazy DECEPTION AND
introduced "night's hemisphere had veiled the horizon round" [51-52] subverted the epic seducer” CORRUPTION
"Satan involved in rising mist" [75] convention by casting Satan Sean McEvoy GOOD VERSUS EVIL
"The serpent subtlest beast of all the field" [86] as the epic hero.
Sympathetic reading of Percy Shelley: “Milton’s
God after better worse would build? Terrestrial Satan’s character, we find devil is far superior to his
heaven"[102] him heroic due to the God”
"of growth, sense, reason summed up in a man with perspective that comes
delight could I have walked round thee" [113-14] with his character.
MILTON’S authorial intent
"like a black mist low creeping" [180] CREATION: In Paradise Lost, Stella P Revard:
"well stored with subtle wiles" [184] the creation of the world is 'Adam, by permitting Eve to
narrated by Raphael in go forth alone, creates the
"in meditated fraud and malice, bent on man's Book VII, and the creation climate for her to fall'
destruction" [55] stories of man and woman Adam is to fall when his
"The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel are told by Adam and Eve in passion for Eve
Torment within me" [120] Books VIII and IV predominates.'
, "for only in destroying I find ease from my relentless respectively. The
thoughts" [129] relationship of our first
ancestors to the rest of
creation is described in
Book IV of Paradise Lost,
ironically through the eyes
of Satan
"in whose mazy folds" [161] Innocence of marriage pre- Corruption of good: he MARRIAGE
"To hide me and the dark intent I bring, O foul descent!" fall represents the anthesis of
[163] CREATION: God made the the creation
"spite then with spite is best repaid" [178] world, and everything in it,
"envying our happiness" [254] perfect. He created
humanity, male and female,
to look after and develop
the world, living in perfect
harmony with God and the
rest of creation.
Adam and “sacred light began to dawn” [192]
Eve’s unity “from the earth’s great alter send up silent praise” [195]
“joined their vocal worship” [198]
“prime for the sweetest scents and airs” [200]
“for much their work outgrew the hands’ dispatch of two
gardening so wide” [202-203]
Eve Desiring “virgin majesty” [270] Growing division as Eve Arnold Stein: Eve is just GENDER
control "her heavenly form, angelic, but more soft and feminine, longs for control asserting independence MARRIAGE
her graceful innocence" [458-459] Women: façade of beauty:
he wants to highlight the D.K McColley: “Eve is
"let us divide our labours" [214] duplicity of women, their sinlessly concerned with
"how are we happy still in fear of harm" [326] corruption of good efficiency”
"rather double honour gain" [332]
"with thy permission then, and thus forewarned" [378]
Adam’s "daughter of God and man" [291] J.M. Evans: Eve’s motive is GENDER
response "nothing lovelier can be found in woman,” [232] ‘love of her own power’
"go in thy native innocence" [373]
“malicious foe…seeks to work us woe and shame by sly Samuel Johnson: “Multon
